You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

The average man looks at himself in the mirror 23 times a day, the average woman 16 times a British survey reports. Men look to “admire” themselves,

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

I learned a murmuration is a flock of starlings whirling and turning in the sky, changing directions in a second, flying back again, blackening

Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

America has had presidents who will be remembered as much for what they said as for what they did. Americans will never forget

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away